[EAN: 9780548003770], Neubuch, [PU: Kessinger Publishing, LLC], THOMAS CARLYLE,LITERATURE, Social Science|Sociology|General, This item is printed on demand. Hardcover. 348 pages. CONTENTS: Book IProem Chapter I. Midas Chapter II. The Sphinx Chapter III. Manchester Insurrection Chapter IV. Morrisons Pill Chapter V. Aristocracy of Talent Chapter VI. Hero-Worship Book IIThe Ancient Monk Chapter I. Jocelin of Brakelond Chapter II. St. Edmundsbury Chapter III. Landlord Edmund Chapter IV. Abbot Hugo Chapter V. Twelfth Century Chapter VI. Monk Samson Chapter VII. The Canvassing Chapter VIII. The Election Chapter IX. Abbot Samson Chapter X. Government Chapter XI. The Abbots Ways Chapter XII. The Abbots Troubles Chapter XIII. In Parliament Chapter XIV. Henry of Essex Chapter XV. PracticalDevotional Chapter XVI. St. Edmund Chapter XVII. The Beginnings Book IIIThe Modern Worker Chapter I. Phenomena Chapter II. Gospel of Mammonism Chapter III. Gospel of Dilettantism Chapter IV. Happy Chapter V. The English Chapter VI. Two Centuries Chapter VII. Over-Production Chapter VIII. Unworking Aristocracy Chapter IX. Working Aristocracy Chapter X. Plugson of Undershot Chapter XI. Labour Chapter XII. Reward Chapter XIII. Democracy Chapter XIV. Sir Jabesh Windbag Chapter XV. Morrison Again Book IVHoroscope Chapter I. Aristocracies Chapter II. Bribery Committee Chapter III. The One Institution Chapter IV. Captains of Industry Chapter V. Permanence Chapter VI. The Landed Chapter VII. The Gifted Chapter VIII. The Didactic a selection from Book IProem, Chapter I. Midas: The condition of England, on which many pamphlets are now in the course of publication, and many thoughts unpublished are going on in every reflective head, is justly regarded as one of the most ominous, and withal one of the strangest, ever seen in this world. England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition. With unabated bounty the land of England blooms and grows; waving with yellow harvests; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood to be the strongest, the cunningest and the willingest our Earth ever had; these men are here; the work they have done, the fruit they have realised is here, abundant, exuberant on every hand of us: and behold, some baleful fiat as of Enchantment has gone forth, saying, Touch it not, ye workers, ye master-workers, ye master-idlers; none of you can touch it, no man of you shall be the better for it; this is enchanted fruit! On the poor workers such fiat falls first, in its rudest shape; but on the rich masterworkers too it falls; neither can the rich master-idlers, nor any richest or highest man escape, but all are like to be brought low with it, and made poor enough, in the money-sense or a far fataller one. Of these successful skillful workers some two millions, it is now counted, sit in Workhouses, Poor-law Prisons; or have out-door relief flung over the wall to them, the workhouse Bastille being filled to bursting, and the strong Poor-law broken asunder by a stronger. They sit there, these many months now; their hope of deliverance as yet small. In workhouses, pleasantly so named, because work cannot be done in them. Twelve hundred thousand workers in England alone; their cunning right-hand lamed, lying idle in their sorrowful bosom; their hopes, outlooks, share of this fair world, shut in by narrow walls. . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.